Sunan Abi Dawud 3896

Translation

Alaqah came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and embraced Islam. He then came back from him and passed some people who had a lunatic fettered in chains. His people said: We are told that your companion has brought some good. Have you something with which you can cure him? I then recited Surat al-Fatihah and he was cured. They gave me one hundred sheep. I then came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and informed him of it. He asked: Is it only this? The narrator, Musaddad, said in his other version: Did you say anything other than this? I said: No. He said: Take it, for by my life, some accept if for a worthless chain, but you have done so for a genuine one.

Notes

• وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ فِي مَوْضِعٍ آخَرَ " هَلْ قُلْتَ غَيْرَ هَذَا ". قُلْتُ لاَ. قَالَ " خُذْهَا فَلَعَمْرِي لَمَنْ أَكَلَ بِرُقْيَةِ بَاطِلٍ لَقَدْ أَكَلْتَ بِرُقْيَةِ حَقٍّ

  machine translationMusaddad said in another place: "Did you say anything other than this?" I said: No. He said: "Take it, for by my life, whoever eats by means of a false incantation (ruqyah)... you have eaten by means of a true incantation." Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• أبو زرعة الرازي

  حديث ابن أبي السفر وزكريا أصح

  machine translationThe hadith of Ibn Abī al-Safar and Zakariyyā is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3891

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3897Sunan Abi Dawud 3901Musnad Ahmad 21835Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 24052al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10832al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7510

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlāqah b. Ṣuḥār al-Tamīmī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   عَلَاقَةُ بْنُ صُحَارٍ التَّمِيمِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Khārijah b. al-Ṣalt

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   خَارِجَةَ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ التَّمِيمِيِّمقبول.
   عن
3. 3
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   عَامِرٌثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   حدثني
4. 4
   Zakariyyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to practice tadlīs (concealment of defects in the chain)d. 147 AH, or: 148 AH, or: 149 AH
   زَكَرِيَّاثقة ، وكان يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Musaddad

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
   مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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